Mary agnes dunn



No. 752,049. `1=ATNNTND NEB. 16, 1904.

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BOTTLE. STOPPNR, AND OPENER..

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2s, 190s. tNONQDBL.

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i :immuni UNTTED STATES o Patented February 16, 1904.

MARY AGNES DUNN, OF NEWT YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE, STOPPERQAND OPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 752,049, dated February 16, 1904.

Application led January 26, 1903. Serial No. 140,518. (No model.) A

T0 LEZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY AGNES DUNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and us efnl Improvements in Bottles, Stoppers, and Openers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to bottles and to means for both stopping and opening them, and is capable of being embodied in suchaform that it may be used for either purpose and at the same time be simple and inexpensive.

My invention has for a specic object a mutilation of the bottle, which result will be coincident with opening said bottle, the latter being thereby rendered unfit for relilling for commercial purposes.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a bottle and a device embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the latter, and Fig. Sis a vertical longitudinal section of a detail.

Corresponding parts in all the gures are denoted by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawings, l designates a bottle having a body l and a neck 2, into which a cork 3 may be inserted. The neck 2 is circumferentially recessed, as at 2', suciently to materially reduce the thickness of the wall of the neck, and thus form a shoulder 2". A wire band 4, which may have an angular edge 4L formed on its perimeter, closely encircles the neck at the recess 2 and is continuedly formed into finger-loops 4, the edge et being inward in the recess 2', but preferably outward on the nger-loops d". A strap 5, preferably of wire, is looped at each of its .ends

' 5 to the wire 4: at opposite sides of the recess 2 and passes longitudinally of and over the end of the neck 2 and across the outer end of the cork 3.

The operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which it appertains. The device being properly attached to a corked bottle, as above set forth, the cork 3 -is held rmly in the neck 2 by the wire strap 5, attached to the wire 4, as aforesaid. Ihen it is desired to open the bottle 1, fingers of one hand may be inserted in the loops 4:", the bottle being held in the other hand. A sharp pull on the device will then sever the neck at the recess 2, and a lower portion 3 of the cork 3 will prevent broken glass from entering the body l' of the bottle. It will be noted that a bottle thus opened will be so mutilated, as aforesaid, as to be unfit for further commercial use, and that a bottle so mutilated could not be readily sold with counterfeit contents.

I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the details of construction and arrangement as herein described and illustrated, as it is manifest that variations and modifica.- tions may be made in the features of construction and arrangement in the adaptation of the device to various conditions of use without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention and improvements. Itherefore reserve the right to 'all such variation and modification as properly fall within the scope of my invention and the terms of the following claims.

Havingthus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination with a bottle whose neck is provided with a peripheral recess, and a stopper within said neck, of a band encircling said neck within said recess and having an angular edge formed on its perimeter adjacent to the bottle-neck and also having iinger-loops, and afastener securing the stopper in the bottle-neck.

2. The combination with a bottle whose neck is provided with a peripheral recess, and a stopper within said neck, of abend encircling said neck within said recess and provided with finger-loops, said band and inger-loops being composed of Wire having an angular edge on its perimeter, and the said edge being inward on the band and outward on the finger-loops, whereby it will sever the neck at the recess and will preclude injury to a persons fingers I inserted in the finger-loops, and means forse? l -Y curing the stopper in the bottle-neck.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name in the presence of the subscribing witnesses.

MARY AGNES DUNN.

Witnesses:

Criss. H. DAvnJs, J. M. Hocron. 

